Council of Ministers

Union Council of Ministers of India

The Union Council of Ministers exercises executive authority in the Republic of India. It consists of senior ministers, called “Cabinet Ministers”, and junior ministers, called “Ministers of State”. It is led by the Prime Minister. A smaller executive body, called the Union Cabinetis the supreme decision-making body in India Only the Prime Minister and ministers of the rank of “Cabinet Minister” are members of the Cabinet. The most senior civil servant in India, called the Cabinet Secretary, leads the Cabinet Secretariat, and provides administrative assistance to the Council of Ministers. Ministers of State are tasked with assisting Cabinet Ministers in their work

Contents

1Regulations

2Ranking

3Current ministry

1Cabinet Ministers[5]

2Ministers of State

Regulations

As a collective, the Council of Ministers is responsible to the lower house of the Indian Parliament, called the House of the People According to the Constitution of India, the total number of ministers in the Council of Ministers must not exceed 15% of the total number of members of the House of the People. Ministers must be members of parliament. Any minister who is not a member of either the lower or upper houses of parliament for six consecutive months is automatically stripped of his or her ministerial post.

Ranking

There are three categories of ministers, in descending order of rank:

Cabinet Minister: member of school

leads a ministry

Minister of State (Independent Charges): junior minister not reporting to a cabinet minister

Minister of State (MoS): junior minister reporting to a cabinet minister, usually tasked with a specific responsibility in that ministry.

Current ministry

Main article:Narendra Modi ministry

As a collective, each successive Council of Ministers is referred to as a ministry. The current ministry is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took office on 26 May 2014.

Cabinet Ministers

Died in office

Resigned

Portfolio

Minister

office Took

office Left

Party

Prime Minister
Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Atomic Energy
Department of Space
All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

Narendra Modi

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Home Affairs

Rajnath Singh

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of External Affairs
Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs

Sushma Swaraj

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Finance

Arun Jaitley

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Defence

Arun Jaitley

26 May 2014

9 November 2014

BJP

Manohar Parrikar

9 November 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Information and Broadcasting

Arun Jaitley

9 November 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Railways

D. V. Sadananda Gowda

26 May 2014

9 November 2014

BJP

Suresh Prabhu

9 November 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Urban Development
Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

Venkaiah Naidu

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Minister of Shipping

Nitin Gadkari

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Law and Justice

Ravi Shankar Prasad

26 May 2014

9 November 2014

BJP

D.V. Sadananda Gowda

9 November 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

Uma Bharati

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Minority Affairs

Najma Heptulla

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Rural Development
Minister of Panchayati Raj
Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation

Gopinath Munde

26 May 2014

3 June 2014[†]

BJP

Nitin Gadkari

4 June 2014

9 November 2014

BJP

Birender Singh

9 November 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Ram Vilas Paswan

26 May 2014

Incumbent

LJP

Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Kalraj Mishra

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Women and Child Development

Maneka Gandhi

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Ananth Kumar

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Communications and Information Technology

Ravi Shankar Prasad

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Civil Aviation

Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati

26 May 2014

Incumbent

TDP

Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Anant Geete

26 May 2014

Incumbent

Shiv Sena

Minister of Food Processing Industries

Harsimrat Kaur Badal

26 May 2014

Incumbent

SAD

Minister of Mines
Minister of Steel

Narendra Singh Tomar

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Labour and Employment

Narendra Singh Tomar

26 May 2014

9 November 2014

BJP

Bandaru Dattatreya

9 November 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Tribal Affairs

Jual Oram

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Agriculture

Radha Mohan Singh

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment

Thawar Chand Gehlot

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Human Resource Development

Smriti Irani

26 May 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister of Science and Technology

Harsh Vardhan

9 November 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Minister Of Health and Family Welfare

Harsh Vardhan

4 June 2014

9 November 2014

BJP

Jagat Prakash Nadda

9 November 2014

Incumbent

BJP

Ministers of State

Bandaru Dattatreya

Labour and Employment*

Dharmendra Pradhan

Petroleum and Natural Gas*

G. M. Sideshwara

Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

Giriraj Singh

Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Ravi Anand

Chemicals & Fertilizers

Jayant Sinha

Finance

Jitendra Singh

Development of North Eastern Region*, Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space

Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary

Home Affairs

Kiren Rijiju

Home Affairs

Krishan Pal

Social Justice & Empowerment

Nihalchand

Panchayati Raj

Nirmala Sitharaman

Commerce and Industry*

Mahesh Sharma

Culture*, Tourism*, Civil Aviation

Manoj Sinha

Railways

Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava

Tribal Affairs

Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya

Agriculture

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs

Prakash Javadekar

Environment, Forest and Climate Change,Minister of Information and Broadcasting